Wednesday, February 11, 2015

OBAMA: Climate Change Worse Than Terrorism - Out Of Touch?

Continuing to show the administration is either out of touch or has ulterior motives, the White House

Obama & Earnest

doubled down on Tuesday stating that the
dangers posed by climate change is greater for America than the threat of terrorism.

As he spoke to reporters White House press secretary Josh
Earnest said Americans no longer face the same threat of attack that they did
prior to Sept. 11, 2001, crediting the administration’s efforts to degrade
organizations such as al Qaeda. Yet ISIS
and Boka Horam are continuing to grow and Iran continues its path towards
nuclear proliferation.

Today, Josh Earnest said, “There are many more people on an
annual basis who have to confront the direct impact on their lives of climate
change, or on the spread of a disease, than on terrorism,” he said. “When
you’re talking about the direct daily impact of these kind of challenges on the
daily lives of Americans, particularly Americans living in this country … more
people are directly affected by those things than by terrorism.”

President Obama made the same argument during an interview
with Vox released this week.

In its national security plan released last week, the
administration also ranked climate change alongside more traditional threats
such as nuclear proliferation and terrorism.